This story is bunk. There is no one that is clearly good enough to play, not playing. And further, and more specifically, any one of the Subban kids could have played for a New England prep school, played good hockey and received a great education too. After that any Ivy, Hockey East or NESCAC school would have taken them and it would have been free - were they good enough and at least close to smart enough. Finally, I know from great experience, these kids the schools pay for are not economically elite as the article suggests. Parents that want to pay for kids that aren’t good enough, yet, perhaps with fingers crossed, are simply using their prerogative as free adults. Who is anyone to suggest its a bad thing for parents to invest time and money into their kids?Anything to the contrary is busybodyness.
Nobody’s is critizing the parents for spending the money. The article is about the impact on the sport overall. What it is saying is the player pool will be more offspring of a well to do family in suburban Vancouver, Toronto or Montreal, instead of kids from the prairies of Alberta or who’s father is a steel worker in Hamilton. The same is happening here in baseball. In baseball terms, no more coal miners sons like Mickey Mantle. The future Willie Mays or Hank Aaron will be playing in the NBA or NFL. The future Gordie Howe in the CFL.